“Female Subjects and Negotiating Identities in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies”

    In “Female Subjects and Negotiating Identities in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies” by Bahareh Bahmanpour, the author talks about several stories from the book Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. Bahmanpour focuses on the female protagonists of the stories rather than the males. The author seeks to find out why Lahiri projects woman in her writing the way she does. Bahmanpour shows the differences between each character and the similarities as well. Bahmanpour separates each story and then talks about it and why it’s significant and how each woman is portrayed in each of the stories. This is helpful because it gives a deeper sense of what Lahiri is trying to say about Indian woman. The readers can get a better sense of the purpose of each story.